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The House voted Tuesday to fund the Department of Homeland Security, ending a monthslong impasse over President Obama’s immigration policies and averting a weekend shutdown at the agency.The vote highlighted the rift in the...

The House could vote Tuesday on a bill that averts a partial shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and funds the agency through September, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) told GOP lawmakers in a closed-door caucus meeting.The...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) decision to pass a short-term Homeland Security bill late last week has attracted criticism from some conservatives.After the House on Friday failed to pass a three-week bill to avert a Department of...

Just don’t call it a deal.House Democrats on Monday said they expect Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to bring a clean Homeland Security bill to the floor this week, effectively ending the fight over funding for President Obama’s executive actions on...

The opening weeks of the 114th Congress have been nothing short of a disaster for Republicans, who declared upon taking control of both chambers last fall that the era of governing by crisis and fiscal cliffs was over.Since their declaration, House...

Almost a quarter of House Democrats will boycott Tuesday’s congressional address by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.The defections, which point to the increasingly strained relations between the White House and the Israeli government, have...

Centrist Democrats are gathering their forces to fight back against the “Elizabeth Warren wing” of their party, fearing a sharp turn to the left could prove disastrous in the 2016 elections.For months, moderate Democrats have kept silent, as...